I have a Compaq Presario 5000, that I traded a busted laptop to my dad for. As far as I'm aware he did not do any kind of overclocking (mobo is locked if memory serves me), and everything left in the system is standard issue. My question is what is the fastest speed of Ram I can throw in there,...

I have a Compaq Presario 5000, and I am trying to find the wiring diagrams for the motherboard that came with the system when it was purchased. Somewhere during the shuffle of things the wires were pulled off of the motherboard and now I need to reconnect them in order to turn the blasted thing on...

In the 2 months I've had this laptop, I've NEVER heard of seen the little fan (located on the side of the upper left corner of the keyboard) run. The keyboard gets fairly warm, but even after using the laptop for an hour or so, the fan still hasn't kicked in. I did try poking it with a...

I put an IBM 10 gig drive on a Compaq and loaded winXP home. I then put the hard drive in a clone pc and it wont boot. If I put the drive back in the compaq machine it boot just fine? Is there some kind of boot record on it or something telling it to boot from a compaq bios only? I need to use the...

I've had assistance here lately with my Deskpro EN SFF 886. I had been ignoring a sound like the hard drive switching itself on and off for a little while now and tonight it sems the power supply has blown. There was a small pop and a smell of burning and the green light's out for good, with a...

I recently bought some eBay RAM from someone with a good rep there, 100%. I've had the chip in for about 10 days and I thought everything was fine. It seems to show up, i.e from when I first put it in and the BIOS amended itself. And it shows up as having gone from 256 mb to 512 when I look at...

Hello again. With the RAM replaced, and tests checking out, the Compaq is working fine and I'm sure noticeably smoother. I just wanted, though, to check something about the RAM I was sent. It says SFRAM - usually it's SDRAM isn't it? Is this okay? The chip is about 1/8 of an inch bigger but...

Well, I've switched it on this morning, and unless I'm mistaken the BIOS defaults I applied seem to have cured things. Touch wood. At any rate, it sounds that if I do have battery trouble I'll be able to do it, once I know what a C2032 looks like, I'm sure there's a pic somewhere online. Thanks...

I'm hoping this is going to be simple because the machine is otherwise working fine with the exception of the floppy drive, but my Deskpro SFF 886 mhz seems to have some kind of problem which I'm hoping is not related to a dying battery. The first time I switch it on - to recap it's (at least...

I almost forgot - this computer came with a single 256 mb RAM card in, DIMM, 133mhz etc. According to Crucial.com it should only have up to three 128 mb cards. It seems fine. Can I safely add a second one of these, 256 mb again. (I have a 64mb card in a drawer as salvage, but it is different...

The remaining problem with this DeskPro EN 866 sff is that the floppy drive won't work. Initially the seller, a refurbishing company, seem to have not plugged the power connector in (labelled P2?), which I've now done. I don't see how any of the leads can be in wrong - they seem to only go one...

Hello, hope someone here can help, though I've put the post elsewhere too. I wanted a computer separate from my Vista laptop for specific tasks and have bought a refurbished Compaq Deskpro En, 886 mhz, 320 mb RAM, 20 gig hard drive. For a lot of simple tasks it looks fine, like this page, for...

I have a Pressario 500 Series (5446EA), and want to upgrade the PSU to a more powerful one. I have been trying to find info from Compaq about the PSU, but they aren't very forthcoming. Does anyone have any information about the type of PSU in this computer, and possibly places that sell PSU's for...

Hi, I've a Compaq Presario 2200 laptop. I have the same problem as Bill, one of the member. I cut and paste his problem description and the answer to it from another thread. My problem is similar but the solution that was offered by Bob Buckland does not work for me. I don't have SMS Mirror...

During a boot up(win98)..I received a message O S not found..Bestbuy did a diagnostic check and told me that compaq does not load a full System restore on the single restore disk(oem)..They tell me it is a 2 disk set?? My restore disk when installed comes up in spanish..Says something about...

(win98) During boot up i Received a message OS Not found (Compaq 5002us) I had a diagnostic run , and was told My restore disk will not work (comes up in spanish)..I was also told that compaq does not ship a entire restore disk with this comp..That i will need a 2 disk set , Because i have a...

Can anyone help me with a lost product key for WIN98. I have a Compaq Presario 5340. I bought it second hand and the restore disk keeps asking me for the product key. Help??

Hi gang, A guy at work has a Compaq Presario (possibly a 2247) and he's looking to upgrade the memory. Will a standard single side 128mb SDRAM do the job or does this use special memory? Ta in advance, SODA

Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 1810 laptop and I’m having problem with the configuration (detect) of the internal modem in Win2k, as you know it originally comes with Win98. I have tried with many drivers and I couldn’t get it work for me (don't detect it). Can someone help me with this problem?..,...

My friend and I recently gutted an old dead Proliant server (something with a P133 in it) We each took parts to add on to our existing computers. One of the parts I took was the 5 disk-hotpluggable drive cage, and 5 drives. I hooked up a power supply to the cage (standard molex connectors)...